Onset

Vowel

Consonant

Vowel

Semivowels

Rhotics

Coda

Words

A small explanation is perhaps due.

This started with me experimenting with words. Words are funky things, and prononciation doubly so; so how far could we push it?

First of all, consonants. T, P, S, N, K, L, and F are the main one I choose.

However slavic languages inspired me to make hard and soft variants of these, so Ket and Kjet. Over there the determinant of whether a consonant is soft or hard is on the vowel, so of course I did the same. Of course, I also stole the idea of thinking about PS (ƥ), TS (ŧ), and ST (ƾ) as their own consonants. These signs I picked because they look pretty.

What more can we put on the consonant? Make them a little more nasal by prepending a N- to them, or make them flow by adding a L-. Now our consonants have some power to form complex words that are still (vaguely) pronouncable!

What else can we put on the vowel? Ah, rhotics. I am kinda from a part of the world where these even get their own IPA sign (something something lowering of the third formant mid-vowel) so of course I had to abuse it. In front and behind the vowel, including on the afformentioned YA, YE and YI's from slavic.

Inspired by the other side of the world, you can also put WHUA's on your vowels. In front, behind, or both.

Are you still following me? Good, cause I am not :-D.

I made two scripts for this little conlang-ish prononciation guide; one traditional and one modern. Well ok they claim to be :-D

I also added an attempt at IPA, but I don't claim it to be exact. Pronounce it well back in the throat, else you *will* die.

Worldbuilding time

The traditional one I imagine started as a vowel-consonant-vowel-consonant kind of affair, not being very precise on the pronounciation on the vowels especially. But the language required this precision, perhaps to encode aspects or tense^(?) or something.

Much error was made! So the monks started to put little extra's on the letters; little tails to indicate the rhotics, and little diacritics to indicate the semivowels. It was kind of a hodgepot affair; but they didn't have to reformat their poetic books ^and/_or alter their local word of God.

But it was quite clumsy, albeit compact. So to modernise their country for the newfangled computer (a locally-made homecomputer in a shed supported this format, but that was not the case of all those foreign-imported computers of course) the gouvernement set out to modernise the language; and in the process come up with a much simpler and clean script.

Reaction was mixed. On the one end it made it easier for foreigners to read local signs (let that due to slim city budgets be the last thing to be replaced, btw). On the other hand there were complaints that the spelling was unpredictable, the words too long (Ampsrjuaumps, anyone?), and it was seen as a modernism and a foreign influence to some. Massive sums spend that could better have been focussed on repairing the unusuable roads and the shitty sheds people lived in.

But they coexist, people use both (traditional often for names including product names, with in small modern the ingredients written on them), and after all both were imported at some point. It's not easy being a small shitty country with an overly complex language!

Extensions

I would say put the onset on void (check off here and here you lazy bitch) and then glue that to the previous word you made. This would probably allow you all the complex vowel structures you'd ever want; if not you go invent your own language I'm not stopping you it's a fun hobby!